A Fresh Look at Mint
Posted on September 06, 2005 at 01:03 PM EST
Last night, Shaun Inman released his long-awaited stat-tracking application, Mint. Mint is the replacement for what was previously known as, ShortStat, which I’ve been using since I released the retro version of my site in the beginning of May. I’ve been running it for about 15 hours now and have noticed some big improvements over ShortStat. The load time is significantly faster, the stats are no longer clogged with referrer spam, my visits to my site are now ignored, and the interface has a much cleaner look.
One of my favorite things about Mint is that it offers a quick and easy way to view all of my site’s important statistics in just one page view as opposed to having to click a lot get to various pages like with Urchin. Another great feature is the Pepper API, which allows others to create add-ons to make it better. Shaun is already offering two great additions; Local Searches, which records what your visitors are typing in on your local search form, and User Agent 007, which tracks visitor information such as their browser, platform, resolution, and Flash version.
Mint costs $30 per domain, which isn’t too bad, however I think it would be a lot better if he decided to charge $10 or $15 for each additional license.
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